The UK government have agreed to a change in the rules, but the impacts in Ireland should only be subtly felt.
Gavin Cooney What exactly has happened today? Brexit, much like the principles of its main proponents, is always open for negotiation.
These changes are bigger for English football than here at home, as they don’t reverse the fundamental ban on Irish players under the age of 18 signing for English clubs. There will be some small tremors felt here, though, which we will also get to shortly. After Brexit, from 2021 all non-Irish players from EU countries joined this latter group in requiring a GBE. The situation for Irish players changed too. From the moment Britain left the EU, Irish players could only sign for UK clubs from the age of 18. Those 18 and over, however, didn’t need a GBE, with the Common Travel Area given precedence.
Director of Football Marc Canham is currently leading a country-wide consultation tour, the feedback from which will form a Player Pathway Plan to be published later this year. The FAI also last week published their infrastructure plan, and are asking for €140 million across 15 years to develop academies at each LOI men’s and women’s club. “Brexit”, they write, “has accelerated the need for real, lasting change.
The FA are concerned that only two of England’s U17 World Cup winners from 2017 were included in Gareth Southgate’s squad at the Qatar World Cup last winter, and also say English players lag behind their main European counterparts for minutes played in the Champions League and Europa League this season. This is why they wanted a system that would incentivise clubs to play their English talents.
Plus, given they are unable to recruit younger overseas players on the cheap, EFL clubs can no longer sell them on to the Premier League clubs. As a result, the gap between the two levels is widening: transfer fees that once trickled down the system are now being spent abroad.
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